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Terminal Boardumb => Non-Music Shit => Cities => Topic started by: Abel on October 09, 2009, 08:36:06 AM
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... and it's been great so far.
Algunos Termbro's en Madrid? si sale algo que hacer por ahi, un toque o lo que sea, pueden escribirme al perfil privado.
Box Elders tocan en noviembre con Juanita y Los Feos, joder.
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Raul is the only Spaniard here and he lives in South Spain near Morocco or somethin.
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raul's not the only one! hombrebueno, la nurse and myself are also spaniards, but we don't write so often.
sex/vid are playing the 20th november with a bunch of bands and it looks like it's going to be fun.
check elforosecreto. they post there concerts and stuff happening in madrid.
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hell yeah, I read about that show somewhere! maybe it was elforosecreto? I know that grabba grabba tape and juanita y los feos are also playing.
I will open an account in elforosecreto soon... I'm still looking for a room to rent, staying at Posada Las Huertas in the meantime :s
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just spent a few days in madrid. sorry spanish bros but not enough time and too burnt from morocco to play meet & greet. next time as i'd like to meet some nurses.
some things i learned:
- the spaniards are fucking drunks! you associate ireland, france, italy, belgium with drinking but not spain...but, man, you fuckers start at noon, take a nap at 4 pm and then start back into the late morning.
- the spanish cant make a salad to save their asses. its almost always iceberg lettuce, canned corn, tuna, and sometimes rice. fucking horrible rubbish. and why is it that you have a hundred names for "crappy ham sandwich"?
- i know tapas were invented to give drinkers something to pour booze on but was really disappointed considering the rep they have. it was bad bar food to me. tapas here are treated as some kinda specialty. but, man o man, those little salted roasted peppers, i could eat those for days.
- every other rock t shirt i passed on the street was one with a ramones logo on it. go to the flea market and every booth selling t shirts has ramones gear. even on the plane over there were spanish dudes coming from NY with ramones shirts on. all that explains a lot why you guys have so many shitty punk bands. even your cab drivers listen to shitty pop punk.
- fucking perverts, you spics! there is a whole section at el rastos (the flea market) where you can buy USED PORN! I even saw a stack of JUGS! and the porn section is right by a playground!
- talking about playgrounds, nice that they are in plazas next to metro stations. very weird to see parents and kids playing on them at 11 pm, when teens are drinking on the street. that would call for a police sweep over here.
- also cool that the museums are free on saturday and sunday. went to the sofia and saw a vulpress 7" in a display case!
- much prettier and way more trees than i thought. we stayed in lavapies, about a half block from the metro station and it was really cool. your metro, by the way, really fucking rules. i would definitely go back.
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- the spanish cant make a salad to save their asses. its almost always iceberg lettuce, canned corn, tuna, and sometimes rice. fucking horrible rubbish. and why is it that you have a hundred names for "crappy ham sandwich"?
- i know tapas were invented to give drinkers something to pour booze on but was really disappointed considering the rep they have. it was bad bar food to me. tapas here are treated as some kinda specialty. but, man o man, those little salted roasted peppers, i could eat those for days.
you definitely went to the wrong places. i've never eaten a salad with canned corn and iceberg lettuce. did you go with somebody from madrid?
the same goes for tapas. maybe you should have asked for bares de pinchos instead, dunno...
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You can go wrong eating in Spain but it's hard, and a pinch of advice from a local will steer you right. I'm a salad dodger at the best of times so can't comment too much on Spanish salads, though I do consciously steer clear of ensalada rusa. Jamon - ditch the bread roll and just eat it by itself. The peppers are pimientos de padron and yeah they are amazing. They're fried not roasted by the way.
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Didnt have a local as a guide, unfortunately. And I did avoid the ensalada rusa AKA Russian Salad. The iceburg lettuce/canned corn salad was every fucking place except a really bad (reputedly great) veggie restaurant we tried, in which the salad was mediocre. I just get really spoiled with salads here, all the fresh veggies. And to be fair, if you came to Sacramento and didnt have a Rick Ele or someone pointing you to where to eat, you'd probably have my food exerience in Madrid.
But those peppers......
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I went to Madrid and Barcelona with my family a couple of years ago for Christmas/New Years. My parents were footing the bill so we ate at a lot of really nice places. I loved the food, it ruled. Got one of the best pieces of fish I had ever eaten in Madrid.
I liked Madrid a lot more than Barcelona. Barcelona was too crowded and overwhelming, Madrid felt more like New York to me. LOVED Madrid. Would love to go back.
Also, New Years in Madrid was the craziest thing ever! There were straight up riots in the streets, streetlights and traffic signs were destroyed/knocked over and stuff. Cool place.
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My parents were footing the bill
surprise surprise
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My parents were footing the bill
surprise surprise
oh fuck you. i pay my own rent/bills and everything else. this was a family vacation four years ago. i'm sure you never did ANYTHING that your parents paid for so i'm a spoiled bitch. get off my fucking case.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/joke
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oh wait, i was confused because you've never been nice to me ever.
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ain't my job to be nice, baby
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My favorite european city. Now and then I,m seriously considering to move there. Had local guides when I,m been in Madrid but cant say that the food impressed me very much besides some kind of blood sausage that were delicious. The boozing were right up my alley. Anyone who takes their drinking seriously should visit Madrid
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I drank in like 6 different places last night. Downtown Madrid at 3 am is fucking insane, so crowded...
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How much of a pain in the ass is it to get all the proper paperwork to move to Europe?
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What do you mean move? Like for a while or permanently?
If for a while, it varies country to country. With all countries there is a certain
amount of time (in france 90 days) you can be in the country before you need to get a work or student visa. Student visa is easy, work visa isnt easy (but doesnt have to be hard, especially if you have a valued skill). Plenty of people go and stay out the 90s days, come back to the US for a few weeks and go back for another 90s days.
To become a citizen of a European country it is a lot harder. If your folks came straight off the boat from a Euro country, you just have to do some paperwork and you can get citizenship. In some countries you can go back as far as a couple generations depending on whether it was your mom's side or dad's side who came over. You need to do do research into you family tree as well as track down paper work. If your people are say, Italian, like mine, be prepared to spend a lot of money and time fighting to get paperwork from their wretched bureaucracy.
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if you're talking about becoming a citizen and all, it's pretty tough, my mom has lived in france for 3 years and she got married to an EU resident there but still doesn't qualify as a citizen. seems like most of the EU is like that. finding a job in france is especially hard because technically the company has to prove that you are doing a job that a french citizen couldn't do (although i'm not sure how strict they are about this). i'm guessing a lot of immigrants in france work under the table.
look into teaching english. you can get by doing this in just about any country, and many companies will get you a work visa (more likely if you're qualified). i am planning on doing this when i get out of school.
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What do you mean move? Like for a while or permanently?
If for a while, it varies country to country. With all countries there is a certain
amount of time (in france 90 days) you can be in the country before you need to get a work or student visa. Student visa is easy, work visa isnt easy (but doesnt have to be hard, especially if you have a valued skill). Plenty of people go and stay out the 90s days, come back to the US for a few weeks and go back for another 90s days.
To become a citizen of a European country it is a lot harder. If your folks came straight off the boat from a Euro country, you just have to do some paperwork and you can get citizenship. In some countries you can go back as far as a couple generations depending on whether it was your mom's side or dad's side who came over. You need to do do research into you family tree as well as track down paper work. If your people are say, Italian, like mine, be prepared to spend a lot of money and time fighting to get paperwork from their wretched bureaucracy.
I meant for a long period of time. To me 90 days is a really long vacation, not moving. My lineage is a dead end. My ancestors came from the Netherlands to far back to count and it was my mothers side. To be Dutch it can't go back further than the grandparents and it has to be your fathers family. Not sure why it matters but it does.
I tried to get a job at a hostel in Amsterdam a few years ago and was shot down because I was American. You need an EU, Canuck or Aussie passport to work there. Too bad. Would have been a kick ass time.
Citizenship means squat to me. I'd just like to live aboad, legally, for a year or two. Too bad the days of the American dollar being king are long gone. The days of swooning Euro chicks is gone.
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Vinnie is gonna fuck abusive husband.
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What do you mean move? Like for a while or permanently?
If for a while, it varies country to country. With all countries there is a certain
amount of time (in france 90 days) you can be in the country before you need to get a work or student visa. Student visa is easy, work visa isnt easy (but doesnt have to be hard, especially if you have a valued skill). Plenty of people go and stay out the 90s days, come back to the US for a few weeks and go back for another 90s days.
To become a citizen of a European country it is a lot harder. If your folks came straight off the boat from a Euro country, you just have to do some paperwork and you can get citizenship. In some countries you can go back as far as a couple generations depending on whether it was your mom's side or dad's side who came over. You need to do do research into you family tree as well as track down paper work. If your people are say, Italian, like mine, be prepared to spend a lot of money and time fighting to get paperwork from their wretched bureaucracy.
I meant for a long period of time. To me 90 days is a really long vacation, not moving. My lineage is a dead end. My ancestors came from the Netherlands to far back to count and it was my mothers side. To be Dutch it can't go back further than the grandparents and it has to be your fathers family. Not sure why it matters but it does.
I tried to get a job at a hostel in Amsterdam a few years ago and was shot down because I was American. You need an EU, Canuck or Aussie passport to work there. Too bad. Would have been a kick ass time.
Citizenship means squat to me. I'd just like to live aboad, legally, for a year or two. Too bad the days of the American dollar being king are long gone. The days of swooning Euro chicks is gone.
Just go be an illegal alien for a while...works here.
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Vinnie is gonna fuck abusive husband.
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raul's not the only one! hombrebueno, la nurse and myself are also spaniards, but we don't write so often.
sex/vid are playing the 20th november with a bunch of bands and it looks like it's going to be fun.
check elforosecreto. they post there concerts and stuff happening in madrid.
it seems there's more spaniards around this forum, we are from madrid, we put out cdrs, and we organize some shows (not that much lately though), you can be updated joining for Noise's sake group
http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/fornoisessake/
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and i forgot to mention, madrid rules!
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While I ate some pretty good food in Madrid its also where I had the worst meal of my life. I convinced my girlfriend to go to this local cafe place straight out of the 70s because it looked authentic. Neither of us spoke spanish so we ordered some random stuff off the menu. We ended up with the nastiest salad ever, a mixture of canned tuna, potatoes, mayonaise and corn. It had an orange film over the top from being left out. Also had the nastiest paella that was a really weird colour and this gross meat swimming in gravy that turned out to be oxtail. The best (worst) part of it was that we ordered bacon and eggs by accident and even that was nasty, drowning in grease.
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Just wondering if it is worth visiting Madrid/Spain in late January? Our vacation schedule is either then or mid-Aug. so I figure Jan. would be a little better...
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don't go in august. places like madrid will be shut down for the holiday season (i.e. august). thus, the city will be flooded with tourists, but all the cool locals will be gone and lots of stuff will be closed.
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What's Cudevaso like to see live?
I'm guessings like a punch to the teeth, but fun, too.
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In August it is VERY Hot in Madrid. Take the January slot if possible.
Just wondering if it is worth visiting Madrid/Spain in late January? Our vacation schedule is either then or mid-Aug. so I figure Jan. would be a little better...
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cheers for the replies- I kinda figured that Jan. would be better than Aug. maybe some more queries before we go.
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hopefully for you the yen/euro exchange rate is better than the dollar/euro. if you are spending dollars you are gonna get slammed.
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Lot's of Madrid info., is there anything worthwhile in Barcelona? Just pondering a future vacation.
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probably too early to ask if there are any shows going on in madrid in early march, but what the hell. anything? looks like the zeros are touring spain this month....
we're also gonna be in barcelona, sevilla, and granada in late feb, early march. i don't expect much in sevilla, but the other three have to have something going on, right? haven't been to bcn in a few years, and have never been to the other three cities. i should probably start a new thread...